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Baseball Ranked No. 41 In Perfect Game Preseason Top 50

Jan 26, 2016

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The 2016 season is rapidly approaching and first-year head coach Jamie Corr and the Florida SouthWestern baseball team have secured the program’s first preseason ranking. Perfect Game recently released their Junior College Preseason Top 50, with the Bucs landing at No. 41.

FSW, ranked in the top 50 despite not fielding a team since 1997, is one of nine National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 8 teams and one of three Suncoast Conference teams in the Perfect Game Preseason Junior College Top 50. The PG rankings will be updated on a bi-weekly basis throughout the 2016 season.

Getting the nod as PG’s opening day No. 1 team will be the defending National Champions Northwest Florida State. Coach Doug Martin and the Raiders went 5-1 during the 2015 World Series including a 10-0 win over Iowa Western, who will start the season as our No. 2 ranked team.

FSW will call City of Palms Park in downtown Fort Myers their home stadium. City of Palms Park, originally built by the City of Fort Myers, was the spring training site of the Boston Red Sox from 1993 until 2011, when the team moved for spring training in 2012 to JetBlue Stadium.

The 2016 season kicks off on January 29 when the Bucs host the Silver Storm of ASA College. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. at City of Palms Park. Free admission will be granted to fans bringing a non-perishable food item to the game. The canned goods will then be collected and donated to Community Cooperative – The Soup Kitchen. Admission for fans without a canned good for the food drive is $5.00, but current FSW students, faculty and staff get in FREE to all home baseball games with a valid BUC Card.

For more information on Buccaneer Athletics follow @FSWBucs on Twitter or log on to FSWBucs.com and for more information on Perfect Game check out their website at PerfectGame.org.

2016 Perfect Game Top 50 Junior College Teams

  1. Northwest Florida State
  2. Iowa Western
  3. San Jacinto
  4. Spartanburg Methodist
  5. Cowley County
  6. Chipola
  7. Walters State
  8. Orange Coast
  9. Chattahoochee Valley
  10. Palomar
  11. Yavapai
  12. Crowder
  13. Central Arizona
  14. Heartland
  15. Grayson
  16. San Joaquin Delta
  17. McLennan
  18. Polk State
  19. Cypress
  20. Howard
  21. St. Johns River
  22. John A. Logan
  23. LSU-Eunice
  24. Miami-Dade
  25. Western Nevada
  26. Palm Beach State
  27. Seminole State
  28. Cisco
  29. Dodge City
  30. Western Oklahoma State
  31. Midland
  32. Navarro
  33. Hinds
  34. Delgado
  35. State College of Florida-Manatee
  36. Weatherford
  37. Arizona Western
  38. Southern Nevada
  39. Darton State
  40. Wabash Valley
  41. Florida SouthWestern State #
  42. Gulf Coast State
  43. Lower Columbia
  44. Mt. Hood
  45. Cochise
  46. USC Sumter
  47. El Camino
  48. Salt Lake
  49. Riverside
  50. Pitt

#Program hasn't fielded a baseball team since 1997.

FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN
The Florida SouthWestern State College athletic program is a member of the Florida College System Athletic Association (FCSAA) and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). The Buccaneers are one of 25 schools in the NJCAA Region 8 and are one of six schools in the Suncoast Conference. Florida SouthWestern State College currently supports four intercollegiate athletic programs (Baseball, Softball, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball), with Volleyball coming in the fall of 2017.

Baseball and Softball will begin their regular season competition in 2016 at the City of Palms Park in Fort Myers. Located on the Thomas Edison (Lee) Campus in Fort Myers will be the brand new Suncoast Credit Union Arena (set to be completed by fall 2016), where FSW’s men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams will compete.

THE NJCAA
The movement to form a unique sports association dedicated to America’s two-year colleges arose in 1937 when several track and field coaches gathered in Fresno, California. A year later, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rejected a petition from 13 two-year colleges in California to grant their teams and athletes permission to compete at the NCAA Track & Field Championships.

In the spring of 1938, following the NCAA’s rejection, those same 13 two-year colleges gathered again in Fresno to organize and form an association that would promote and supervise a national athletics program exclusively for junior and community colleges…and the rest is history.

On May 14, 1938, the first constitution of the National Junior College Athletic Association was accepted by its charter members and the organization held its first national championship event a year later in May 1939.

The NJCAA has played a vital role in collegiate athletics for the past eight decades and continues to be the leader in championing academic and athletic opportunities for student-athletes. This section of the association's website is dedicated to celebrating the NJCAA's rich history and tradition as the national governing body of two-year college athletics.

For more information on the NJCAA log on to www.NJCAA.org.

THE FCSAA
The Florida College System Activities Association, Incorporated (FCSAA) is a statewide non?profit corporation regulating, coordinating, and promoting intercollegiate activities in: Athletics, Brain Bowl, Forensics, Music, Student Government, Student Publications, and Theatre.

Membership in the Florida College System Activities Association is open to any of the 28 colleges in the Florida College System. Each member institution is represented in the policy?making deliberations of the Association through that institution's President or other designated representative. The institutional representatives constitute the FCSAA Presidents Assembly, the ultimate authority in FCSAA.

For more information on the FCSAA log on to www.TheFCSAA.com.

NJCAA REGION 8 & THE SUNCOAST CONFERENCE
Member colleges of the NJCAA are allotted to a specific NJCAA Region upon membership to the association. Unlike other collegiate organizations that defer to conference affiliation, the NJCAA guarantees each member college's membership within the regional structure of the association. In most cases, region assignment is based upon geographic location of the college.

The region structure of the NJCAA is the primary method used by all sponsored sports of the association in determining qualification for national championship tournaments. In certain sports, two or more regions are partnered to form a competition 'district', which is then used for national championship qualification. The organization of districts varies per sport and is formulated every two years under the authority of the association's board of directors.

FSW is in Region 8 and is joined by ASA College Miami (Region 8 only; non-FCSAA member), Broward College, Chipola College, College of Central Florida, Daytona State College, Eastern Florida State College, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Gulf Coast State College, Hillsborough Community College, Indian River State College, Lake-Sumter State College, Miami Dade College, Northwest Florida State College, Palm Beach State College, Pasco-Hernando State College, Pensacola State College, Polk State College, Santa Fe College, Seminole State College of Florida, South Florida State College, St. Johns River State College, St. Petersburg College, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota and Tallahassee Community College.

The Bucs are also in the Suncoast Conference with Hillsborough Community College, Polk State College, South Florida State College, St. Petersburg College and State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota.

For more information on Region 8 log on to www.TheFCSAASports.com.

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